Bachelor of Science in Business - Business Analytics Concentration
Fairfax, USA
DURATION
4 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
Request application deadline *
EARLIEST START DATE
Aug 2024
TUITION FEES
USD 4,897 / per semester **
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* for International student | Domestic student is 1st of February
** in-state tuition full-time (12-15 credits); USD 16,980 - out-of-state tuition full-time (12-15 credits); USD 1,803 - mandatory student fee
Introduction
Data is imperative to doing business.
Learn to explore and model data to deliver value to customers, vendors, employees, and other stakeholders with a concentration in business analytics.
In our data-driven world, the ability to gather, manage, and interpret data to deliver business insights is vital to organizational success. Mason's business analytics concentration provides you with expertise that cuts across all business disciplines.
Why Choose Mason?
Our Business Analytics concentration is designed to meet the market demand for graduates who understand and can deploy an array of methodologies and techniques to collect, organize, report, and mine data to extract useful and actionable insights for decision-makers.
What You’ll Learn
As a Mason business analytics concentration student, you will learn about data management and governance; how to deploy data-mining techniques; econometrics and statistical techniques; enterprise systems and applications; data visualization; and market research analysis.
Program Outcome
- Identify business questions that can be answered by data
- Identify appropriate data to answer those questions
- Evaluate the quality of the data
- Analyze data, form meaningful conclusions, and communicate those conclusions to relevant parties
Career Opportunities
The business analytics concentration prepares you for a variety of career options that intersect the management of data, strategy, people, processes, solutions, and technology, including:
- Accounting Data Analyst
- Business Analytics Specialist
- Business Management Analyst/Consultant
- Business Intelligence Analyst
- Clinical Data Managers
- Data Analyst
- Data Mining Associate
- Data Scientist
- Data Warehousing Specialist
- Digital Analyst
- Financial Quantitative Analyst
- Fraud Examiner/Analyst/Investigator
- Marketing Data Analyst
- Marketing Research Assistant/Analyst
- Social Media Analyst
- Statistical Research Assistant
- Systems Analyst
Curriculum
Degree Requirements
Total credits: 120
School of Business students pursuing a BS degree must complete a minimum of 120 credits, including the Mason Core requirements, business foundations, business core, and concentration requirements. In addition, the following requirements must be met:
- A minimum of 45 credits at the 300- or 400-level.
- A minimum of 30 credits of School of Business core, capstone, and concentration courses at Mason.
- At least 9 credits required for the specific concentration and BUS 498 Capstone Course: Advanced Business Models (Mason Core) taken at Mason.
- A grade of C or higher earned in the business foundations, business core, and concentration requirements.
Concentration courses
Required Courses
- MIS 310 Database Management Systems 3
- MIS 430 Data Warehousing 3
- MIS 431 Data Mining for Business Applications 3
- MIS 433 Programming for Analytics 3
Electives
Select three courses from the following: 9
- ACCT 465 Advanced Accounting Analytics
- FNAN 430 Empirical Methods in Finance
- FNAN 436 Probability Methods for Finance
- MIS 432 Advanced Data Mining
- MKTG 351 Marketing Research
- MKTG 352 Marketing Analytics for New Product Development
- OSCM 352 Management Science
- OSCM 435 Business Process Analysis and Simulation
- OSCM 452 Business Forecasting
- STAT 463 Introduction to Exploratory Data Analysis
- SYST 473 Decision and Risk Analysis
- MIS 492 Internship in Management Information Systems or OSCM 492 Internship in Operations and Supply Chain Management
Total Credits 21